Nigahiga

He is awesome.

Nigahiga is a popular YouTube channel created by Japanese-American friends Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi, Tim Enos and Tarynn Nago (known collectively as "The Yabo Crew")'. Since relocating to Las Vegas to study filmmaking at UNLV,[1] Higa's videos are usually solo efforts except during school breaks when he sometimes visits Hilo and collaborates with the Yabo Crew.[2] They are known for their YouTube comedy videos, which have been viewed over 700 million times.[3] As of April 2011, Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, has over 3.4 million subscribers and is the most subscribed YouTube channel of all time ahead of such prominent YouTube users as Smosh, Ray William Johnson, ShaneDawsonTV and Fred.[4]

Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi started posting YouTube videos of themselves lip-synching to songs in mid 2006 while attending Waiakea High School.[5] They quickly expanded beyond songs, with a variety of other comedic pieces. Occasional guest appearances are made by Tim Enos, Ryan Villaruel, Kyle Chun, and Tarynn Nago, collectively known as the "Yabo Crew".[6]

How to Be Nerd video

On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How to be gangster and How to be Emo, were removed due to copyright violations.[7] On January 21, 2009, nigahiga's account was temporarily suspended and he was told to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, nigahiga's lip synching videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful, which was audio swapped[8]), and so were most of his videos that include copyrighted music. As of now, all the music that is being played in nigahiga's videos is music Higa composed himself. How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were put back on nigahiga's channel in late August 2009, only to be removed a few days later, along with How to be Ninja and How to be Nerd. In spring 2010, How to be Ninja, How to be Gangster and How to be Emo were made public once more.[9]

In 2008, Los Angeles producer Richard Van...